Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c11.22

v1.c11.22

We have already discussed the relation which Bharata's treatment of *alaṃkāras* might have borne to Bhāmaha's much fuller and later disquisition. What we find in Bharata constitutes the earliest speculation on the subject that we possess: but Bhāmaha himself tells us that he had predecessors whose work he apparently utilised. While referring to these predecessors (or contemporaries) generally as *anye*¹, *apare*² or *kecit*³, Bhāmaha cites twice by name one Medhā-